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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Will that be done through regulation? Is it possible that the regulations would ensure what I seek to be included in the Bill? If the matter is covered by regulation, I am happy to withdraw the amendment.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister. I am happy to withdraw the amendment in view of the Minister’s assurances that the matter will be dealt with by regulation.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I thank Deputy Mitchell O’Connor.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: For the sake of clarity – I do not advocate the measure – there was an exemption for cigars in the regulation under the 2002 Act. A cigar company manufactures cigars in Ballaghaderreen in County Roscommon, or Mayo, depending on whom one supports. The question is whether there is potential to exempt cigars under regulation or whether they will be governed directly by the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I can accept the Minister's point. We need to broaden the debate as the issue is not just tobacco but nicotine. Nicotine is being consumed through vaping. Once a person is addicted to nicotine it can lead him or her towards the path of smoking and tobacco substitutes. We will have to confront this issue at some stage. The concern is that a young person may start out by vaping, thinking...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 336. To ask the Minister for Health when an application from a person (details supplied) in County Cork, for their need of assessment, made in July 2014 will be arranged; the reason they have been waiting so long for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6927/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if he satisfied with the inquiry currently underway at Portiuncula Hospital in County Galway; the independence of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6933/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (17 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance at the end of 2014 in the age groups, 17 years and under, 18 to 29 years, 30 to 39 years, 40 to 49 years, 50 to 59 years, 60 to 69 years, 60 to 79 years, 80 years and over. [7081/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and the officials. I would like to ask Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Breslin about an article in The Irish Timestoday which refers to the €1.4 billion increase sought last year in the allocation for the budget to provide safe clinical care in our health services. Reference was made to the debacle associated with probity and medical cards and many other dysfunctional areas....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: That is why we are not able to get at the full truth at the Estimates meetings. I refer to Government policy on universal health insurance. I have a question for the Secretary General, Mr. Breslin. Is universal health insurance still being actively assessed, costed and verified? What is the Department doing to address and consider that central Government policy? I have a question for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: The Chairman is rushing me. It is not often I get a chance to ask questions with such a group of people in front of me. I have a question for Mr. O'Brien on the more focused issue of consultants' pay and the need to fill a large number of vacant posts. I refer to the remuneration package in the context of attracting or retaining consultants compared to other countries. We are losing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Is it Dr. Nash who will decide which cases are appropriate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: What about the National Association of General Practitioners?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: Before the election, will a detailed policy document be published on universal health insurance to allow for a proper adjudication on what it will entail? The Minister stated his aim was to provide a realistic budget for the health services for 2015. Is it realistic considering what was stated this morning? As Mr. O’Brien stated this morning, if we are to continue with the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Adoption Legislation (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Children and Family Relationships Bill will change the current arrangements for step-parent adoption, for example, where at present the only way a woman's second spouse can adopt her child is by her relinquishing her parental rights and the couple then adopting the child together; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6577/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Adoption Legislation (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 161. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Children and Family Relationships Bill will provide effect to the recommendation by the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection for a simpler procedure for step-parent adoptions, whereby a step-parent could adopt the child, without terminating the rights of existing parents, as permitted in France and Austria; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a specific timeframe and commitment in respect of when updated cost of care figures for public nursing units will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6373/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is lack of transparency in respect of the cost of care under the nursing home support scheme, in respect of public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6374/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 181. To ask the Minister for Health his views on recent comments (details supplied) by the Minister of State with responsibility for older persons regarding the severe financial pressures upon public nursing homes to meet Health Information and Quality Authority physical environment standards, and the July 2015 deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6375/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (12 Feb 2015)

Billy Kelleher: 182. To ask the Minister for Health his views on recent comments by the Minister of State with responsibility for older persons and the director general of the Health Service Executive regarding major works required to bring the executive's long-stay residential care facilities into compliance with the physical environment standards set by the Health Information and Quality Authority, and the...